Sale reports / Missouri / New Cambria Livestock Market / 2025-08-07

New Cambria Livestock Market

Feeder Cattle · Replacement Cattle · New Cambria, Missouri · Thu, Aug 7
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1248
Feeder Cattle receipts
523 head
▼ 205 vs last sale 728▲ 18 vs year ago 505 · +3.6%
Replacement Cattle receipts
82 head
▲ 82 vs last sale 0▲ 82 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

No recent sale for a price comparison, undertone higher. Supply moderate, demand very good.

Weight classPick one — the panels below update

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $392.71/cwt on 80 head. That ranks 3 of 13 comparable sales and sits −27.41 against this barn's trailing median of $420.13.
Average price
$392.71
80 head · 553 lb average
Value per head Derived
$2,170
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$21
per head · Medium and Large 1-2 over Medium and Large 1
$12.30/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+19.31
vs MO average
+42.14 vs national

Price by quality 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1-2538400.562,15629
Medium and Large 1561388.252,17751
One grade step is worth $12.30/cwt here — about −$21 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 400–500 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale80 hd
392.71
—
MO average13 barns · 2,079 hd
373.40
+19.31
National average149 barns · 9,537 hd
350.57
+42.14
This barn, trailing median13 sales
420.13
−27.41
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

13 sales
465431398365median 420.1303/0504/0205/0706/1810/29
Heifers 500–600 lb: high $450.73, low $378.91, median $420.13 across 13 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

Replacement cattle Per head

By class, stage and age
Bred stock and pairs are reported per head, not per hundredweight — these prices are never mixed with the $/cwt figures above.
ClassStageAgeAvg wt$/headHead
Bred Cows3rd Stage (7-9 mo)Middle Aged (5-8 yrs)1,399$3,31615
Bred Heifers3rd Stage (7-9 mo)(<2 yrs)1,073$4,35563

Every lot

23 lots · USDA AMS · New Cambria Livestock Market - New Cambria, MO
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added. Grouped by class and set lightest first; USDA files them in sale-ring order.
ClassWeightGrade / descriptionAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Feeder Cattle · Steers9 lots · lightest first
Steers400–450Medium and Large 1405550.00/cwt550.00–550.002,2287
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1487479.12/cwt478.00–480.002,3339
Steers450–500Medium and Large 1-2488374.00/cwt374.00–374.001,8253
Steers500–550Medium and Large 1532461.10/cwt448.00–478.002,45329
Steers550–600Medium and Large 1579430.17/cwt417.00–450.002,49120
Steers600–650Medium and Large 1621413.53/cwt399.00–423.002,56831
Steers650–700Medium and Large 1691383.00/cwt383.00–383.002,6474
Steers700–750Medium and Large 1710376.02/cwt375.00–376.502,67019
Steers800–850Medium and Large 1820341.00/cwt341.00–341.002,7964
Feeder Cattle · Heifers11 lots · lightest first
Heifers350–400Medium and Large 1383480.00/cwt480.00–480.001,8383
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1464430.24/cwt409.00–446.501,99617
Heifers450–500Medium and Large 1-2497377.50/cwt377.50–377.501,8763
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1-2Thin Fleshed512420.00/cwt420.00–420.002,15014
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1528410.39/cwt406.50–419.502,16713
Heifers500–550Medium and Large 1-2538397.00/cwt397.00–397.002,1363
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1-2569378.76/cwt372.50–388.002,15512
Heifers550–600Medium and Large 1572380.68/cwt371.00–395.002,17738
Heifers600–650Medium and Large 1611385.50/cwt385.50–385.502,35536
Heifers650–700Medium and Large 1681380.00/cwt380.00–380.002,58811
Heifers700–750Medium and Large 1703366.20/cwt365.00–368.002,57435
Feeder Cattle · Bulls1 lot · lightest first
Bulls350–400Medium and Large 1-2359425.00/cwt425.00–425.001,5265
Replacement Cattle · Bred Heifers1 lot · lightest first
Bred Heifers—Medium and Large 11,0734,355.32/head4,350.00–4,425.004,35563
Replacement Cattle · Bred Cows1 lot · lightest first
Bred Cows—Medium and Large 11,3993,315.90/head3,225.00–3,400.003,31615

This sale against other markets

Missouri weighted averages
One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Missouri auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.